Space Exploration

When humans return to the moon, they’ll likely visit one of these 13 regions near the moon’s south pole

The Space Launch System rocket could lift off on its voyage to lunar orbit as early as late August

Commercial spacecraft are vying to land on the lunar surface, but can they jump-start a new space economy?

Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore

The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats

Astronomers and the public alike are delighting in the glittering depths of the universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

The suits, supplied by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, will be used in NASA’s upcoming Artemis lunar missions and will protect space travellers from micrometeoroids, moon dust and even vomit

The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments

The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost

Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere 

The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research